The mind is one of the most valuable sources that keep the body healthy. With illness in the mind, parts of the body can be affected (Dubovsky). This is called psychosomatic illness. According to the "Thorndike Barnhart Advanced Dictionary," psychosomatic illness can be explained as, "of having to do with, or caused by the interaction of the mind and body." With the illness, one can become affected physically and emotionally. The treatments of psychosomatic illness include seeking a psychiatrist, or seeing a doctor for medicine.

There is a way y to explain psychosomatic illness. "We are beginning to understand the subtle play of interaction not between psyche and soma but between the brain and the other organic systems that participate in adaptation. In the context of these interactions, what we call the influence of psychological factors on illness will no longer be seen...